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Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store
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Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store

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Yaoi manga is a niche genre, but like all niche genres, it has a devoted following. Yaoi readers gobble up the books like romance fans read Harlequin novels, which is not surprising as they are basically the same thing, except that yaoi 1) is manga, 2) is a love story between two men, and 3) often includes lots of sex.

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Recently Amazon has become more strict in enforcing their content requirements for ebooks. Several DMP books that have been available online since 2009 are getting the axe, beginning with our 801 Media titles like Weekend Lovers and King of Debt. However, in the last few days the issue has spread to the June imprint by Amazon’s refusal of The Selfish Demon King, and the removal of The Color of Love from the Kindle store.

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....all the reviews I checked described the book as more sweet than sexy, which raises the question: If this story had been about a man and a woman, would it have been removed from the store?

A quick search suggests that the answer is “no.” Titles currently available on Kindle include Christmas Creampie, a graphic novel in which “horny Whoreville hussies show a frustrated dildo shop owner the true meaning of Christmas,” and Little Lorna in Resort Sports (I’m not even going to link to this one), in which Little Lorna, who is spunky, sexy, but “not too bright,” goes on vacation to Mexico with her Uncle Bob; “nudity, spanking, and sexy humor” result.

So apparently a sweet love story between two men is unacceptable, but an orgy in a dildo shop is OK.

Thanks to crabby_lioness for posting this over at noscans_daily

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ekaterinv
2011-05-04 07:19 pm UTC (link)

3) often includes lots of sex

And romance novels don't?

Also wow there is a strain of anti-kink/anti-sex in this whole thing. What's wrong with a story about "an orgy in a dildo shop"? Obviously it's good to point out that Amazon is being colossally hypocritical and homophobic in not allowing yaoi, but the tone people are taking about the sexual things they do allow is really grossing me out.

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	chikane 2011-05-05 07:22 am UTC (link)
	... What's wrong with a story about "an orgy in a dildo shop"? In itself, nothing, but that it is allowed to stay, while much tamer yaoi has to go, proves that it's not about sexual acts, but about the sexuality of the characters. It's not "anti-kink" to point this out - it's the best indicator to show what the real reason for amazon's actions were. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ekaterinv 2011-05-05 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	I thought I was pretty clear that pointing it out to point out Amazon's hypocrisy wasn't what was bothering me. It's the tone that is taken toward it. "I'm not even going to link to this one", for instance. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sneer
2011-05-05 10:07 pm UTC (link)

Little Lorna in Resort Sports (I’m not even going to link to this one), in which Little Lorna, who is spunky, sexy, but “not too bright,” goes on vacation to Mexico with her Uncle Bob

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they didn't want to link to this one because it appears to have a misogynist caricature ("sexy, spunky, and not too bright?" really?) for a female lead and possibly because some of the "nudity, spanking, and sexy humor" that ensues is between Lorna and her uncle (I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that one), not because it contains non-vanilla het sex.

If your kink does happen to be bad porn written by and for straight dudes that features misogynist caricatures getting spanked in the nude by their uncles, I apologize for offending you.

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